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Andrew Savory: Out for delivery?
It feels like my Amazon order has been in transit for ages. It was dispatched over 40 years ago and I’m still waiting …
View ArticleSam Ruby: Port Forwarding
Problem: I’m not always at the machine that is VPN’ed into work. Solution: place the following into /etc/network/if-up.d/sametime-forwarder: #!/bin/sh # # redirect Sametime's port 1533 to...
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Bryan Pendleton: No, it's not breathtaking, it's horrific
I had the same reaction that Dan Lyons did to this phenomenal expose published in Sunday's New York Times, but I couldn't put it into words.Thank you, Mr Lyons, for expressing what I wanted to...
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Ioannis Canellos: Installing services in the cloud with jclouds
PrologueI spent the whole today stuck on an issue with jclouds and I thought that it would be a good idea to blog about it so that others don't have to spend so many hours on it.The issueMy target was...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Joe McNally’s video of Little Freddie King
Joe McNally shifts gears into video mode with this mini-doc of Little Freddie King who has been singing and playing the blues in New Orleans since he was 14 years old. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
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Bryan Pendleton: Some ideas on what to do with your pitchforks
Here are two suggestions, from two very smart people:David Pogue: Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPAIn this case, the solution is to work on the language of the bills to rule out the sorts of abuses that...
View ArticleBrian McCallister: Java Daemonization with posix_spawn(2)
The traditional way of daemonizing a process involves forking the process and daemonizing it from the current running state. This doesn’t work so well in Java because the JVM relies on several...
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Yoav Shapira: My favorite Israeli chopped salad recipe
I don't eat a ton of salad (I should probably have more). But when I do, I'm biased towards this simple Israeli version, because my mom and grandmom make it almost every night. It's a very simple...
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Claus Ibsen: A rare book
Jonathan and I hear often from our readers of Camel in Action, that the book is great, that it helped them get up and riding the Camel, and so on. Camel in Action - a rare book, and a rare book cover...
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Ioannis Canellos: Wicket, Spring 3, JPA2 & Hibernate OSGi Application on...
EDIT: This post is quite outdated. There are now better ways to use JPA inside OSGi (e.g. aries jpa) and I may create a new post on the subject when I find time.The full source for this post has been...
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Andrew Savory: Tethered to o2
I’m on a train tomorrow, and thought it was a good opportunity to use my phone as a wifi hotspot. This works flawlessly with the Samsung Wave 3 (though the GUI to turn it on is a bit suboptimal). It...
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: Apache Santuario (XML Security for Java) 1.5.0 released
Apache Santuario (XML Security for Java) 1.5.0 has been released. It can be downloaded here. Please read the release notes (collated from my previous blog entries) if you are planning to upgrade.
View ArticleDaniel Kulp: Apache CXF split packages resolved!
A long time ago (ok, only 5.5 years ago), when Apache CXF was fist being spun up, we made a decision to try and separate the “API” and the “implementation” of the various CXF components into separate...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Review: Gradle Class with Luke Daley
Last week, Luke Daly arrived in Portland to teach a three day Gradle class; the folks at Gradleware were nice enough let me audit the class (so it only cost me a couple of thousand dollars of lost...
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Ioannis Canellos: Advanced integration testing with Pax Exam Karaf
PrologueFrom my first steps in programming, I realized the need of integration testing.I remember setting up a macro recorder in order to automate the tests of my first swing applications. The result...
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Nick Kew: Kindle
My previous e-reader having died, I found the pocket-friendly form and market-beating price tag of the kindle irresistible. If I stick to Project Gutenberg for my books, I’m not sucked in to Amazon’s...
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Bryan Pendleton: CAPTCHA factories
It seems to be the week for me to write about social issues in computing, so I'll toss one more in. Then, I promise, I'm done with that slant for a while, because it's really not my sort of...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Tapestry 5.4: Focus on JavaScript
Tapestry 5.3.1 is out in the wild ... and if Tapestry is to stay relevant, Tapestry 5.4 is going to need to be something quite (r)evolutionary. There was some confusion on the Tapestry developer...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Method of Action’s color test
How well do you discrimate colors? This fun little game will let you know, though I’d run through it at least twice so you get a feel for the way it works. (via @brainpicker) Linked by James Duncan...
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Bryan Pendleton: Back to the hard-core tech stuff ...
Here are three pointers that are (hopefully) as interesting to you as they were to me:Over at Real World Technologies, David Kanter has posted this great writeup of Intel's latest mobile-oriented...
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